Okay, yesterday I was on here doing my normal Hillary-bashing when a fellow kossack made a comment that so infuriated me that I had to get off the site. Anyone who knows my normal spiel on old Hil' knows that I totally oppose her as our nominee, but honestly not as person (though her supporters are starting to make me change my mind). This is due to her utter unelectability in my opinion (an opinion that I'm really sick of explaining over and over and over...) and her cloudy triangulation on, what seems to be, all issues. What got me yesterday was the implication from her supporters, during a coment thread on Obama's Health Care announcement, that I was ill-informed, or just plain stupid.
So, I shut my computer down and fumed for a bit. Then like all informed progressive-type people, I decided to research the claim made that HRC was either the top expert, or an expert on Health Care Policy in the whole government, or even the whole country (from what I was told)or an expert at all. Well, after reading numerous articles on the subject, the only ones involving Hil' were about the 93' disaster and what she learned from it, which equated to "I need to be more centrist and politically savvy". Nothing wrong with that I guess, but from my readings I was able to whittle down a list of Top Healthcare Policy Organizations, and guess what? I'm not the moron that those Hil-billies said I was.
HRC is not shown on the Board, Advisory Committee or even as a Consulting Member of: The Commonwealth Fund, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Center for Studying Health System Chage, Families USA, The Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, The Henery J. Kaiser Family Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The Herndon Alliance, The Medicare Rights Center, The National Coalition on Healthcare (which does include Carter, Daschle, and Gephardt), Physicians for a National Health Program, Project Hope, and the Universal Healthcare Action Network. So I think that my point that her healthcare kung-fu is no greater than Obama's, Edward's, Richardson's, or even Dubya's is correct and I must say,,, pfffbbt!
Here is required reading. Though not really on healthcare, it's spot on:
http://www.thenation.com/...